Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Grote wants the Bears to select a cornerback at No. 25 overall
22 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's up, everybody? Welcome in to Rahimi Harris and Grody on 104.3 The Score. Hope you are doing well on a Wednesday. We're open 312-644-6767 along with Marshall Harris. I am Mark Grody. We have so much goodness on this show today. We're going to be talking Cubs in about 20 minutes or so. We got White Sox talk because it's worthy. It's still worthy, Marshall. They hot. They hot.
They hot. They got that power going.
We'll get on them White Sox at about 1045 today. We've got Mike Florio on the show talking NFL, and he wrote a hot piece yesterday in regards to Diana Rossini and what Mike Vrabel said or didn't say yesterday, so we'll pick Florio's brain about that. We've got, would this be the third edition of 2026 of Who's Your Guy? You and Layla did Who's Your Guy yesterday. Yes, yes? Yes.
It would be edition number three. Yeah. Three out of four. A four-part series that concludes tomorrow.
I've been practicing, man. I want this to be good today.
You have been practicing. I'm very proud of the cuts that you were taking in the cage earlier this morning.
I was, man. I realized I needed to take a few rips, man. Yes, yes, so we will do this. So be thinking about that. Who's your guy? Who is somebody that is a potential draft pick that you've been wondering about? And we will tell you all about that man at 312-644-6767. That'll come up in just a little bit. We've got full Bears hour with Herb Howard at 1 o'clock.
I do believe the man will be in the studio. You doing all right over there, Mars Hall? You feeling good, man?
I feel like I'm about to be a major pain in your way. Really? Yeah, that's what we do, right?
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Chapter 2: What are the Bears' needs heading into the draft?
Not only are they not sold on him, but I remember going back to 2024 when Terrell Smith was getting an awful lot of snaps the back half of that season. Until eventually the last three games, Stevenson got back to playing 100% of the snaps. But there was, what, a four or five game period where he was splitting snaps? Yeah. with Terrell Smith. We know Terrell Smith was not available last year.
He's supposed to be back this year. So you take him into account. You take Dallas Flowers into account. You take Jalen Jones into account. And some of those guys, straight up special teamers, right? Like only in a pinch. No doubt. Only in a pinch.
And so because of that, you start asking your questions about if they take a safety or like a hybrid safety who's been a defensive back either or, like a corner slash safety, do they move Kyler Gordon somewhere else? Or do they have just multiple chess pieces?
That's why I think what you're talking about is fascinating because I want to know how Dennis Allen sees not only Tyreek Stevenson, but the other pieces he has on the roster right now.
Right, and can they find their next Nashawn Wright? Is that part of the equation with the Bears, if they don't use one of the first three picks to get a corner? Do they think they can Nashawn Wright Zay Frazier? Can they Nashawn Wright Jalen Jones? Can they Nashawn Wright Dallas Flowers? And just like this is building my case, those three guys.
Zay Frazier, fifth-round pick from last year, who, as people know, didn't play personal stuff. He was in the locker room every time I was in there. He's present. He's very much around the team. So hopefully he gets a bite at the apple this year. Look, Jalen Jones, six starts in four years. Dallas Flowers, four teams he's already been on. So you understand the types of players that these guys are.
They are depth. They are special teamers. Working my way up from there. You mentioned Terrell Smith. Didn't play last year because of a torn patellar tendon, which he suffered in the preseason. And he's only had... Six starts in the previous two years, and I know he's had plenty of snaps, and you're right.
He was essentially, even in the training camp in which Terrell Smith and Tyreek Stevenson were drafted, one in the second round, one in the fifth round. I remember watching every inch of that training camp and seeing essentially those two locked up in a competition. It's just been a weird ride for Tyreek Stephenson. Obviously, Ryan Poles likes him, but others have soured on him. Two other guys.
The Kyler Gordon factor. Look, he played in three games last year because of the soft tissue injuries, but I still got to hold out hope for him at 26 years old that he will get his act together, and he hadn't missed a ton of games previous to last year. He has missed games every year in his career, but not a ton when you go back and look. He's a nickel guy, right?
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Chapter 3: Why does Mark Grote believe the Bears should draft a cornerback?
You're right. And everything that they did, it seemed like when the Bears had injuries last year, especially on defense, especially at linebacker and safety and cornerback, they were able to successfully work it out, plug the holes, and look pretty good. I just don't want them to have to have maximum effort again this season.
And then there's the Jalen Johnson part of this, and I kind of already indicated it. Look, he played in seven games last year, groin injuries, the core muscle surgery, a duct or tear, choose your terminology. But Jalen Johnson, it scared me to see him play like he did last year, but I am choosing to believe that he didn't just fall off the table, that this is 100% injury-related.
He just turned 27, even though it feels like Jalen Johnson should be 30 because he's been through so much.
Chapter 4: What competition exists among the Bears' cornerbacks?
in his time here with the Bears. He is just 27 years old.
Last question for you.
But he's still a bit of a mystery.
Do you have a name in mind at 25? That's the final piece of this because looking over the grades, I think there were four first-round grades and there were a couple of first- to second-round grades on cornerbacks, and I didn't know if you had a specific name when you came up with this name.
Well, I do have some names here, and one of them is probably not feasible, but a guy that is considered probably middle first round, Avian Terrell out of Clemson, 5'11", 186, so he's a little bit small-ish, but he had, and maybe this is what sold me on him, eight forced fumbles over his time there, and the word peanut punch came up with him as a corner-bound sucker, what can I tell you?
But he's probably a mid-first round guy, but you just never know. Chris Johnson out of San Diego State, a um six foot 193 supposedly like super smart can could sniff out stuff at the line of scrimmage just going through a little bit of his stuff and then the other name too that i was interested in is doing my own little who's your guy here right now
cornerback Keith Abney from Arizona State, who is projected as a second-round guy and one of these hyper-competitive, I-can-guard-anybody type of dudes.
And that's why I wanted to hear the names, because it's a big gap from 25, and you've got to go all the way down to, what, 57? Yeah. If you don't get the guy you really, really want there, you don't trade back, you're going to have to really say, we hope some of these other players are there at 57.
No doubt about it. So that's where I am right now, ladies and gentlemen. The Bears really need another cornerback. When we return here on Rahimi Harrison-Grody, baseball was good last night for the Cubs and for the Sox, but let's talk about the Chicago Cubs. And I know, Marshall, you came up with something very specifically ā
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